LAPSE:2018.0514
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LAPSE:2018.0514
Operation and Economic Assessment of Hybrid Refueling Station Considering Traffic Flow Information
Suyang Zhou, Yuxuan Zhuang, Wei Gu, Zhi Wu
September 21, 2018
It is anticipated that the penetration of “Green-Energy„ vehicles, including Electric Vehicle (EV), Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCV), and Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV) will keep increasing in next decades. The demand of refueling stations will correspondingly increase for refueling these “Green-Energy„ vehicles. While such kinds of “Green-Energy„ vehicles can provide both social and economic benefits, effective management of refueling various kinds of these vehicles is necessary to maintain vehicle users’ comfortabilities and refueling station’s return on investment. To tackle these problems, this paper proposes a novel energy management approach for hybrid refueling stations with EV chargers, Hydrogen pumps and gas pumps. Firstly, the detailed models of EV chargers, Hydrogen pumps with electrolyte and hydrogen tank, the gas pumps with gas tank, renewable resources, and battery energy storage systems are established. The forecasting methodologies for renewable energy, electricity price and the traffic flow are also presented to support the hybrid refueling station modeling and operation. Then, a management approach is adopted to manage the refueling various kinds of vehicles with considerations of the refueling station profitability. Finally, the proposed management approach is verified under four different kinds of tariffs- Economy-7, Economy-10, Flat-rate, and Real-Time Pricing (RTP), finding that the proposed management approach has the best performance under RTP tariff. The economic assessment of the Energy Storage System (ESS) is also performed. It is found that the ESS can make the saving up to $127 per day. Different sizes of gas storage tank are compared in the final section as well. The result shows that increasing the size of the tank does not bring attractive extra benefits with the consideration of the investment on enlarging the tank size.
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battery storage, electricity tariffs, hybrid refueling station, integrated refueling station, mixed integer linear programming, optimal planning, Renewable Energy
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Zhou S, Zhuang Y, Gu W, Wu Z. Operation and Economic Assessment of Hybrid Refueling Station Considering Traffic Flow Information. (2018). LAPSE:2018.0514
Author Affiliations
Zhou S: School of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210000, China
Zhuang Y: School of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210000, China
Gu W: School of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210000, China
Wu Z: School of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210000, China [ORCID]
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Energies
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11
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8
Article Number
E1991
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2018
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2018-07-31
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1996-1073
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